Henry Hewitt

Henry Hewitt

Born: December 27, 1885
Died: August 23, 1968
in Highgate, London, England, UK

Movies for Henry Hewitt...

The Naked Truth
Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Gunsmith
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Now and Forever
Title: Now and Forever
Character: Jeweller
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
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Isn't Life Wonderful!
Title: Isn't Life Wonderful!
Character: Arthur, a cousin and clergyman
Released: November 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Minister of Health
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Mr. Wilberforce
Released: May 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Mr. Rosehed
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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Happy Go Lovely
Title: Happy Go Lovely
Character: Dodds
Released: March 6, 1951
Type: Movie
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Bruno meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women, who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly, to the surprise of his employees. After a series of mishaps and comic incidents comes a happy ending: a successful show and true love.
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Train of Events
Title: Train of Events
Character: Actor
Released: January 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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London Belongs to Me
Title: London Belongs to Me
Character: Verriter
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
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Give Us the Moon
Title: Give Us the Moon
Character: Announcer
Released: July 31, 1944
Type: Movie
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Addington
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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The Day Will Dawn
Title: The Day Will Dawn
Character: Jack, News Editor
Released: June 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Title: The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Character: Prof. Davys
Released: February 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Sailors Three
Title: Sailors Three
Character: Prof. Pilkington
Released: December 14, 1940
Type: Movie
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
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The High Command
Title: The High Command
Character: Defence counsel
Released: August 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Jan Six
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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Admirals All
Title: Admirals All
Character: Flag Capt. Knox
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer
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The First Mrs Fraser
Title: The First Mrs Fraser
Character: Philip Logan
Released: April 18, 1932
Type: Movie
'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Betrayal
Title: Betrayal
Character: Sir Robert Blackburn KC
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
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Stamboul
Title: Stamboul
Character: Baron von Strick
Released: October 20, 1931
Type: Movie
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire
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The Written Law
Title: The Written Law
Character: Harry Carlisle
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A man is cured of blindness but conceals his recovery from his wife.
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Madame Guillotine
Title: Madame Guillotine
Character: Vicomte d'Avennes
Released: February 19, 1931
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Charles Surface
Released: September 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.